Memory
By cheerful-angel57
This story is dedicated to cuteperidot816, my best friend!!! Aw, how sweet! Joke. This is for you because you always help me and never expect anything in return. And I can always count on you. Ooh… how sweet! Hehe.
A/N: Okay, another one of my insane SetoXSerenity fics. I just LOVE them, I don't know why. Let's use a different term, um… I'm ADDICTED!! Hahaha. Expect more SetoXSerenity from me because I positively HATE SetoXTea. SetoXSerenity is a better couple for me.
Disclaimers: I don't own Yu-gi-Oh!
Summary: SetoXSerenity. Seto Kaiba is an arrogant young CEO who doesn't believe in love, or friendship, or hope. But an arrival of a girl in school triggers his past memories of a girl who looks exactly like her…
Chapter 1
Seto Kaiba was known for being an arrogant CEO of Kaiba Corp. But nevertheless, he was also a student at Domino High. Usually he was followed by his personal fan club and so many girls had crushes on him.
His life was nearly perfect-his genius IQ got him lots of awards and his teachers always predicted a good future for him. But they were scared of him too. His power and arrogance shielded him from other people. He was rich, powerful, handsome and intelligent. Could anyone ask for a more perfect life?
His one enemy was the mutt, who was called Joey Wheeler. Everyone knew that he hated and despised and even abhorred Joey Wheeler. Actually he also hated Yugi and all the dorks, but mostly it was Joey he pinpointed at. He took out all his nuisance qualities at Joey, whenever he was angry he would just come and bug Joey to piss himself off. This was one of his favorite morning activities.
In fact he strolled into the school hallways at around 7:45 A.M. to go to his locker. People he passed gave him frightened looks-they were afraid of him. And there were girls who gave him coquettish smiles, probably those who were in love with him.
He was not ignorant to all these feelings as he passed by, but he sure kept quiet about them.
Suddenly he saw a beautiful young girl with straight, brown hair that flowed down her back and with the prettiest of faces he ever saw. Her eyes were chocolate colored, turning to look at him, giving him one of the most beautiful smiles he had ever seen.
'Who is that girl?' he at once thought. He had never seen her around the campus. He walked to his locker with this subject in his head that he bumped into Joey Wheeler. Everyone turned to look at him, as if expecting a bomb to explode.
"Well, well, well. How nice to see you today, mutt." Kaiba said nastily, putting emphasis with the word 'mutt'.
"Kaiba…" Joey said through gritted teeth. He had his fists clenched up so tightly that it looked like he was about to explode.
"Now get out of my fucking way, mutt. I have no time to argue with you today." Kaiba said icily, looking Joey in the eye.
"There is absolutely no way I am going to let you pass. Go sideways yourself." Joey said, his eyebrows so curved down that it almost covered his eyes.
"You're pathetic, mutt. Now get out of the way." Kaiba said with a smirk and shoved through, Joey yelling behind him about what a bastard he was. He didn't care. He never did.
'Pathetic son of a bitch. Why'd I even know him anyway? I'd have been better off.' Kaiba cursed.
Joey was saying, "Now where is my sister?"
'Who cares about your stupid sister, mutt? Do mutts even have sisters?' Kaiba thought selfishly.
He focused his attention once more on the girl he had seen a while ago. He didn't even know why he cared. He didn't care about girls, even beautiful ones. He remembered the way her long auburn hair swayed down to her shoulders. And those deep-set, delicate and warm brown eyes…
'Damn, stop thinking about that girl!' Kaiba chided himself furiously, angry that he even bothered to notice the girl. But there was just something about her he couldn't place… she just seemed somewhat… familiar.
Even if he knew that he shouldn't spend time thinking about girls, he eventually did.'Damned brain.' He hissed in his mind as he gave in to the many thoughts to ponder over for the day.
Serenity Wheeler grabbed her backpack and swung it over her slender shoulders. She felt just so… so happy today. She had not an idea why she felt that way.
'Maybe it's because Joey introduced me to his friends today?' she thought, the happy memory of meeting new people brimming inside of her. Joey had introduced her to all his friends: Yugi Mutou, Tristan Taylor, Tea Gardner, Duke Devlin, Ryou Bakura and Mai Valentine.
Duke and Tristan seemed to like her a lot… in fact she even thought that they wanted to stalk her or court her.
Or maybe… just maybe it was that guy who saw her, and if she wasn't mistaken… stared at her. She sort of saw a glint of interest in his eyes until he turned away. She didn't know if he had an interest in her or what. But something about him seemed so familiar.
She remembered that she had a childhood friend but she knew not his name; and the memory of this boy came back into her mind. She could not distinctly remember everything that they had encountered together but she knew that they were good friends. He had slick brown hair, with bangs falling down his forehead and orbs of pure sky-blue. He had a kind look in his eyes and he was always dressed nicely, and went to the same school she went to.
Flashback
It was the last day of classes when Serenity finally approached him.
"Hey." Serenity said shyly, approaching the bench where he was. He was holding a thick volume in his arms, his thin brown hair combed neatly. His icy blue orbs turned to meet hers, also in a shy way.
"Hey," he answered in a slightly disfigured voice.
She sat beside him. "What are you reading?"
"Um, nothing." He said shyly.
"No really, it's okay. I don't mind." Serenity said.
He showed Serenity the cover of the book.
"Oh! I see. That's really…advanced." She said truthfully, seeing that he was reading a really long novel on history. He was very studious, nevertheless very intelligent. He always had a chessboard with him, and a portable laptop.
"Hey, when we go to different schools… do you think you'll remember me?" Serenity asked.
He looked up, shoving his bangs out of his eyes. "Yeah… I guess so." He said slowly.
"I think I'll remember you. You're my best friend in this school." Serenity said quietly. She turned her gaze from him and looked at the sky, waiting for his reply.
"I guess I will too." He said.
"Promise?" she asked, extending her hand.
"Promise," he said, interlocking his pinky with hers.
End of Flashback
Serenity sighed as she remembered that incident. It was in the past now. But the promise… and her teachers had always said that promises were meant to be kept, right? Well, she had never forgotten about her "best friend" in her childhood.
She had always pondered about it ever since she came back to Domino to have her eye operation, which had been successful because Joey had helped her. She owed him a lot.
And this guy… 'Oh man, I can't stop thinking about him… he looks exactly like him…' she thought, mulling it over and over in her mind that she had no idea what the others were talking about.
"Serenity? Are you all right? You seem… well, I don't know… in some kind of daze?" A voice snapped her back into reality.
"Um… sorry. I was just thinking." She said to Tea.
"Okay, hey listen, let's go to our classroom. We're in the same class, Serenity," Tea said dismissively and took my hand.
"Sure." Serenity answered and went with Tea.
A/N: End of chapter 1! Hoo boy, I am having a very hard time writing because I got school. School's really tough now and I'm only in high school! Feh, how do I expect to survive in college? Anyway, I hope you like it, especially cuteperidot816. By the way, is it bad, good or definitely trashcan? Please tell me. Any kind of review is welcome. And those of you who do not like SetoXSerenity, don't bother giving me these kinds of reviews like, I don't like SetoXSerenity. Why'd you even read this story if you don't like SetoXSerenity? Okay, no offense meant, but I just want to make one thing straight. Thanks. (But, I mean, WHO would dislike SetoXSerenity anyway? THEY RULE!!!) Boo-yah!